Voice of the people (letter).

Scary Skeletons

NORMAL — After reading your Sept. 5 paper, I was open-mouthed with shock. That "Skeleton Warriors" TV show you wrote about and the "action figures" that will be sold to accompany it are terrifying.

The picture of the skeleton army will give this grandmother nightmares: What will it do to a child? It looks like an expanded version of the old pictures of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And these things are being marketed to children? As toys?

According to the text, this is the army of bad guys against whom the good guys struggle. They certainly pack an emotional wallop.

There is a connection between this sort of "entertainment," violence in the U.S. and anti-Americanism abroad. Our movies, music and television are very popular in other countries. No wonder conservative clergy are upset. This liberal American layman also is.